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... period , not to recognise the influence of the Christian religion , as the great source and the only preservative of all our blessings , individual and national . Its great truths and sanctions are the only foundation of sound morality ...
... period , not to recognise the influence of the Christian religion , as the great source and the only preservative of all our blessings , individual and national . Its great truths and sanctions are the only foundation of sound morality ...
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... period , double the amount of all the publications now extant in the land , to say nothing of replacing the millions of volumes , which it is hoped will be worn out by careful use . And who can foretell the yet undiscovered progression ...
... period , double the amount of all the publications now extant in the land , to say nothing of replacing the millions of volumes , which it is hoped will be worn out by careful use . And who can foretell the yet undiscovered progression ...
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... period , a LIFE DIRECTOR , and an honorary member of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . ARTICLE III . Every member shall be equally entitled to vote at the meetings of the Society , shall be eligible to any office , and shall have the privilege ...
... period , a LIFE DIRECTOR , and an honorary member of the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE . ARTICLE III . Every member shall be equally entitled to vote at the meetings of the Society , shall be eligible to any office , and shall have the privilege ...
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... periods or characters . The degree of superintendence which they engaged to exercise , in Scientific , Historical , or Biographical Works , was such as to secure that no publication should be inconsistent with the general principles of ...
... periods or characters . The degree of superintendence which they engaged to exercise , in Scientific , Historical , or Biographical Works , was such as to secure that no publication should be inconsistent with the general principles of ...
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... period for making the effort . The com- munity are now , more than at any former time , disposed to reading ; and although lati- tudinarian notions of religion and morals are boldly promulgated , the great mass of the people are yet ...
... period for making the effort . The com- munity are now , more than at any former time , disposed to reading ; and although lati- tudinarian notions of religion and morals are boldly promulgated , the great mass of the people are yet ...
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Side 7 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connections with private and public felicity.
Side 7 - The mere politician, equally with the pious man, ought to respect and to cherish them. A volume could not trace all their connexions with private and public felicity. Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice 1 And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion.
Side 7 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric...
Side 7 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Side 7 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in...